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ThinkstockIf the European economy has improved at all, it has not shown up in unemployment numbers among the region’s weakest nations. According to Eurostat, within the region: Among the Member...
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ThinkstockAs retail and fast-food workers strike across 60 cities as a means to get their employers to raise wages as high as $15 an hour, most Americans support the labor union system, a fact that...
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ThinkstockMore than two-thirds of 2011’s college graduates had student debt. Those students, according to the Project on Student Debt, had an average of more than $25,000 in back loans. To make...
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ThinkstockThe median household income in the United States has increased slightly over the past two years, but it is still down more than 6% from the start of the recession. As of June, a U.S. family...
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ThinkstockBased on recent national unemployment rates, it would appear that job creation has improved sharply from when the economy was shedding half a million jobs a month and the jobless rate rose...
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ThinkstockBecause of a major decline in jobs during the recession, the number of nonfarm workers is up just 5% over the past 10 years. While the past decade’s painful recession and the slow job...
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ThinkstockOver the past 10 years, the number of nonfarm workers rose by just 5%. But despite past decade’s painful recession and the slow job growth that has followed, several occupations have more...
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ThinkstockThe Fast Food Forward movement to increase pay for people who work at fast-food companies like McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) and Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) seems to have a fair point....
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courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Walmart is the largest American employer, with a workforce of nearly 2.2 million people. However, because of its international reach, only 1.3 million of those were...
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Tesla Motors blogThe companies on the list were something of a surprise, based on business prospects and layoffs. The Top 25 companies for Work-Life Balance as measured by Glassdoor was just...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims. The past week’s report rose by 5,000 to 333,000. The Dow Jones and Bloomberg estimates called for...
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ThinkstockAs the nation continues to recover from the recession, not only is the unemployment rate down, but the underemployment rate — an important measure of the health of the job market — has...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsFriday’s Labor Department report on the employment situation is now out. July’s unemployment rate fell to 7.4% from 7.6% in June, which was under the Bloomberg...
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Back in the late seventies, as an intern in the financial services industry, I was one of the few women in meetings with top management, economists, and strategists . . . and I was there simply to...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has its key employment and payrolls report due on Friday, and we already have seen mixed reports from TrimTabs and ADP trying to act as a preview to Friday’s...
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